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WP(C)/3486/2025 of SURAJ CHAUHAN Vs THE STATE OF ASSAM on 2 June 2026

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GAHC010131932025 2026:GAU-AS:7743 THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH) Case No. : WP(C)/3486/2025 SURAJ CHAUHAN S/O- LATE MAHADEU CHAUHAN, R/O- VILLAGE- MALECH BASTI, P.O- SILPUTA TINALI, P.S- BAKULIA, DIST- KARBI ANGLONG, ASSAM, PIN- 782482

GAHC010131932025

2026:GAU-AS:7743

THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT

(HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH)

Case No. : WP(C)/3486/2025

SURAJ CHAUHAN

S/O- LATE MAHADEU CHAUHAN, R/O- VILLAGE- MALECH BASTI, P.O- SILPUTA TINALI, P.S- BAKULIA, DIST- KARBI ANGLONG, ASSAM, PIN- 782482

VERSUS

THE STATE OF ASSAM

REP. BY THE COMMISSIONER AND SECRETARY REVENUE AND DISASTER

MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF ASSAM

DISPUR, PIN-781006

2:THE KARBI ANGLONG AUTONOMOUS COUNCIL

REPRESENTED BY THE PRINCIPAL SECRETARY

DEPTT OF REVENUE

KAAC

DIPHU

P.O.-DIPHU

DIST- KARBI ANGLONG

ASSAM

PIN-782460

3:THE JOINT SECRETARY

DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE

KAAC

DIPHU

P.O.-DIPHU

DIST- KARBI ANGLONG

ASSAM

PIN-782460

4:THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONER

KARBI ANGLONG

ASSAM

DIPHU

PIN-782460

5:THE ASSISTANT REVENUE OFFICER/ASSISTANT SETTLEMENT OFFICER

PHULONI REVENUE CIRCLE

PHULONI

KARBI ANGLONG

PIN-78244

Advocate for the Petitioner : MR. D BHUYAN, MR N SARMA

Advocate for the Respondent : SC, REVENUE AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT DEPT, SC, K A

A C,GA, ASSAM

BEFORE

HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE MANISH CHOUDHURY

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ORDER

03.06.2026

Heard Mr. D. Bhuyan, learned counsel for the petitioner; Mr. J. Chutiya, learned Senior Counsel assisted by Ms. S. Kemprai, learned Standing Counsel, KAAC for the respondent nos. 2, 3 & 5; and Mr. S. Dutta, learned Standing Counsel, Revenue & Disaster Management Department for the respondent no. 1. This writ petition was preferred seeking inter alia a direction to the respondent KAAC authorities to restore the petitioner’s name in a plot of land measuring 5 Bighas 2 Kathas 7 Lessas, covered by Dag no. 228/9 & 229/49 under Periodic Patta no. 99/50 situated at Village – Tiniali, Non K, Mouza – Langfer, District – Karbi Anglong and also to correct the land records pertaining to the said plot of land in terms of an Order dated 07.04.2014 passed by the Assam Board of Revenue, Assam in Case no. 78RA[KBR]/2010, which Order was not disturbed by this Court in an Order dated 09.01.2024 passed in W.P.[C] no. 3888/2014. Mr. Chutiya, learned Senior Counsel representing the respondent KAAC has submitted that the corrections pertaining to the afore-mentioned plot of land have been made in the relevant records, that is, in the office chitha and in jamabandi records. In that connection, Mr. Chutiya has also placed a compliance report submitted by the respondent no. 5 before the Revenue Department, KAAC, Diphu, on 02.06.2026 along with an Office Letter bearing no. KAAC/Rev- 2355/Pt-1/2026/55 dated 30.05.2026 of the respondent no. 4, addressed to the respondent no. 5. In view of the above compliance report, the grievances projected by the petitioner in this writ petition are found to have been redressed. Therefore, there is no surviving cause of action to further proceed with the writ petition. The writ petition is accordingly, disposed of. The documents placed by Mr. Chutiya are to be kept with the case record marking it collectively as Document ‘X’. JUDGE Comparing Assistant

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